A special kit for the Australian Coast Guard!

rickshaw · April 11, 2020, 04:12:08 AM

I have found my mojo again. I have in the works, a special kit for the Australian Coast Guard! Details to follow...

PR19_Kit · April 11, 2020, 04:30:44 AM

Excellent news Brian, go for it.

zenrat · April 11, 2020, 05:00:26 AM

Old Wombat · April 11, 2020, 05:15:43 AM

rickshaw · April 14, 2020, 01:10:18 AM

OK. first series of pictures.

zenrat · April 14, 2020, 03:00:37 AM

PR19_Kit · April 14, 2020, 06:14:27 AM

A Turbo-Privateer? Great idea!

What are the engines from? They look a bit like Proteus from a Britannia.

NARSES2 · April 14, 2020, 06:19:45 AM

Quote from: PR19_Kit on April 14, 2020, 06:14:27 AM
A Turbo-Privateer? Great idea!

Indeed

kitnut617 · April 14, 2020, 06:59:45 AM

I'll be watching this one Brian ---

rickshaw · April 14, 2020, 09:14:18 PM

Quote from: kitnut617 on April 14, 2020, 06:59:45 AM
I'll be watching this one Brian ---

You should as you supplied the Darts I am using. It is a Dart powered Turbo Privateer. No more will be revealed until the finish and the back story is written. There may be a few more photos but that is it.

zenrat · April 15, 2020, 04:26:22 AM

So it's Consolidarted?

I'll get me coat...

PR19_Kit · April 15, 2020, 08:43:47 AM

Quote from: zenrat on April 15, 2020, 04:26:22 AM

So it's Consolidarted?

I'll get me coat...

VERY good Fred.

rickshaw · April 27, 2020, 10:42:53 PM

Onto the homestretch. Just need to do a few touch ups and decalling.

Old Wombat · April 28, 2020, 04:11:11 AM

rickshaw · April 30, 2020, 04:50:24 AM

As already related, the Australian Coast Guard was established in 2003. As part of that establishment surplus aircraft were passed from the RAAF and the RAN to the newly formed post guard. The RAAF donated F-28 Friendship transport aircraft. The RAN Curtiss Privateers.

The Privateers had come into the hands of the RAN in 1945 as part of a hand over from the USAF. Australia had, at the end of WWII ended up with a huge Lend-Lease credit. It had fed most of the Occupied populations of the Japanese with grain and other agricultural goods. These aircraft had soldiered on for 30 years until retired at the end of the 1980s.

The Coast Guard took the Privateers on and had decided to re-engine them with Rolls Royce Darts so as to be common with the their dominant fleet of Friendship transports. In doing so, they created the Turbo Privateer. With the twice the installed power of their original radial engines they were able to fly higher and faster. Considerably faster. They were reconfigured as well as primarily transports to support the far flung bases of the Australian Coast Guard.

The Kit.

The kit is a Revell Curtis Privateer model, kindly supplied by Kit. The four engines came from kitnut617. This model was then painted with a hairy stick and decals came from the spares box and of course from Kit Speckman.